Two Laws

Virtual energy must be nudged into action. Honoré de Balzac ( 1799 – 1850) was goaded into writing because of huge financial burden he had to bear owing to his disastrous foray into business. ( Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts.) La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.
His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. His aim was to equal with his writing what his hero Napoleon set out to achieve by sword.
Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac with boundless energy didn’t stoop to hack writing but transcended a feat never before attempted by any writer in the annals of French literature. He is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature.
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In Balzac’s case real time energy must have been pressed into paying off his debts but somewhere in the process of transforming his bitter experiences by fleshing out the society that he knew well he had tapped onto something else: at one level his novels dealt with a society under seige by social changes which were inevitable after the fall of the emperor, but on the other hand it had become timeless. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers.
He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities.(ack: wikipedia). Oscar Wide in a review of one of balzac’s novels said thus: ‘A steady course of Balzac reduces our friends to shadows…who would care to go out to an evening party to meet Tomkins, the friend of one’s boyfriend, when one can sit at home with Lucien de Rubempré (one of Balzac’s characters...)’
Law of deprivation we see in the financial loss from which Balzac would not fully recover. However the other law that of law of compensation is well established in the way he gave the literature new direction. He had tapped on virtual energy indeed.
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